Aid on Spreadsheets

Evaluating innovative programs to combat child and maternal mortality in developing countries: Evidence from three large-scale projects in Uganda and

Despite large improvements in under-five child mortality in recent decades, an estimated 6.9 million children die from preventable diseases every year. A majority of these deaths occur in the poorest countries in the world, in areas of underserved populations with inadequate access to health services. This dramatic picture calls for urgent attention. This research program aims to implement and study three innovative projects to improve child and maternal health outcomes in the Sub-Saharan Africa - the region where change is most desperately needed. The first part of this research program, experiments and evaluates two complementary approaches to the government system to ensure that basic health care is delivered to poor families: a Community Health Worker project in Uganda with a business incentive tied to it as well as a Voluntary Health Worker project in Nigeria focused on pregnant women. The second part of this program, goes beyond the traditional approaches and focus on women's participation in household production and decision-making, and increase exposure to important nutrition and hygiene interventions to study whether gender inequities is a barrier to improving children's health and malnutrition. All projects will be evaluated during the period 2017-2020 using a randomized controlled trial methodology and are expected to contribute to better understand how effective policies can be used to change the negative trend of children's health in the poorer part of the world.

Project ID

SE-0-SE-29-2016-05615_2-285-43082

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

D02 - Other technical assistance

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Funding

Sweden

Extending

The Swedish Research Council

Implementing

Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

CRS code	%
Research/scientific institutions (43082)	100.0